Well, I am back.  I have been super busy at things and I have not followed up on my desire to post a running journal.

We’ve got cooler days down here in Florida these days, all the way down to the 80″s… lol  It is cooler for us, but still very

nice.  But, I am not here to talk too much about the weather.  I love the way the Lord has created the different enviroments,

some like it cold, some like snow, some like the dry desert lands.  I like it hot.  But, I have friends who do not like it this hot, and in

them is a desire to stay north where there are four seasons (including that wet white stuff they call snow.)  Well, that means there

are christians in the north, the south, the east, and the west.  I believe that our desires are given to us by the Lord.

Desires are one of the things that I am still learning about.  I laid all my desires on the table before the Lord and asked for His.

Since then, He has given me many desires.  It is a strange process within our hearts when we begin to adopt His desires as our own.

In the early stages, having any desire made me uneasy, so I sort of went around “desireless” just trying to have only His desires.

Then as I began to grow, I realized, some of those desires were His, and I began to open up.  Of course, then there were all kinds

of desires that started flooding in, so then I had to back up and start again with a clean table.

We got to be careful not quench the Holy Spirit within us as He begins to place in us the desires of His heart.  Yes, we must die to ourselves,

our own agenda, and our own personal goals, but don’t cast out the desires that the Lord puts in our hearts.  It is a journey learning how

to discern His desires from our own.

Have a happy journey and keep smiling.

I am pretty excited about a few changes in my life that are coming up.  The Logos Online Bible School class on Leadership will be starting pretty soon, and we are just making contact with other members in order to gather into groups.  I have been reading over the material and like the fresh air of studying again.

In addition to the Logos Bible School, I am sort of sitting through Sandy Warner’s Prophetic Class also.  She has years of experience, and I have enjoyed her writing for several of these years.

And, last, but not least, I have decided to go ahead and pursue my doctoral studies.   As I go, I will begin working on my thesis, and once the draft is completed, I will find the proper place to submit it.

The thing I like most about all of this is that I know that it is the perfect will of God for me.  I have been avoiding any great studying for a long time.  I just would get frustrated because there always seemed to be something that had to be done.  Well, by the grace of God, I have finally gotten my priorities straightened out.  Praise the Lord.

Let the richness of God pour out through you. Don’t repress Him in your heart and thoughts.

The Israelites spied out the New Land that God had promised to them, but underestimated His
ability to move things on their behalf according to His will. They called themselves ‘grasshoppers” in the eyes of the enemy, and also said that the enemy considered them to be grasshoppers. Just little insignificant buggs to be stamped out.

Well, that is not true. If we’re on the path that the Lord has called us to, we are not insignificant bugs, we are forces to be reckoned with because greater is He who is in us than He who is in the world.

Don’t allow your thoughts to handicap your calls and desires. If you do, the enemy really will see you as nothing to worry about. Our first step of any battle is recognizing who our commanding Officer is, what His resources are, and then stepping on out in faith — knowing that He is cutting our paths.